Ben Nelson: “Thank you. I know that all of you are committed to the best protection for our men and women in uniform.”

It is encouraging to know that there is that effort at coordination and collaboration because if there is any quick way to lose opportunity or to miss optimization, it is everyone going off on their own way.

Do you believe this forward-deployed radar in Turkey is a significant contribution to our Homeland defense capability?

Let me add my thoughts. We ask you to reduce budgets, to watch the growth, and then when you come before us after you've done it, then we question why you've done it and whether you've done it right or not.

The greatest future enhancement for both Homeland and regional defense in the next 10 years is the development of the PTSS satellites, which will provide fire-control quality track data of raids of hostile ballistic missiles over their…